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This tag should be applied to questions about the Wittig reaction and its variants, including the Horner–Wadsworth–Emmons reaction.

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how can i synthesis unsaturated ester via wittig reaction?

A good system for this is using DBU as the base in refluxing chloroform. Bull. Chem. Soc. Japan (2003) 76 1675
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What will be the major product of the reaction between (2R,3R)-2,3-dimethyloxirane and triph...

Think about how the PPh3 first reacts with the epoxide - it does a nucleophilic attack on one of the carbons from below the epoxide ring to give the intermediate shown below left (I have drawn the P s …
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Wittig reaction in presence of carboxylic acids

This works because the acidic starting material is going to be deprotonated as there is excess bicarbonate present. Because of the adjacent carboxylate group, the pKa of the phosphonium species is goi …
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